History
What year did Arkansas become a state?
What is 1936?
This was the first river in the United States to become a national river
What is the Buffalo River?
This person was the first of European descent to discover Crowley's Ridge
What is Benjamin Crowley?
This is the most common rock type in Arkansas
What is Sedimentary?
A flat piece of land next to a river
This person discovered a major oil pool in 1921 and kickstarted the oil boom in Arkansas
Who is Samuel Thompson Busey?
These three major cities in Arkansas were built on the Arkansas River
What is Little Rock, Fort Smith, and Pine Bluff?
Big businesses such as Walmart and Tysons are headquartered in this region
What is the Ozark Mountains?
What is the name of the aquifer located in Arkansas?
What is the Sparta?
What is a Tributary?
The wealthy elites of this city decided to blow up a levee in order to save themselves from flooding during the 1927 flood
What is New Orleans?
Which River ran backwards due to the Mississippi River flooding in 1927?
What is the White River?
The highest point of Arkansas is in this region
What is the Arkansas River Valley?
Coal, oil, and bauxite are what type of natural resource?
What is Non-renewable?
A wall or embankment built along a river or ocean to prevent land from flooding
What is a levee?
This city is the only city in the United States that is also a National Park
What is Hot Springs?
These two major rivers begin in the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas
What is the White and Buffalo River?
Oil and Bauxite mining were once big industries in this region
What is West Gulf Coastal Plain?
These two cities experienced the biggest population growth during the oil boom in Akansas
What is El Dorado and Smackover
Materials and energy sources found in nature that humans use
What is a Natural Resource?
This Arkansan became famous for his singing and songwriting. He is also known as the "man in black"
Who is Johnny Cash?
What are the four major benefits of rivers as discussed in class
1. transportation
2. drinking water
3. water for crops
4. tourism
Hot Springs, Mena, and De Queen are major cities in this region of Arkansas
What is Ouachita Mountains?
The timber industry in Arkansas is the biggest in this region
What is West Gulf Coastal Plain?
The agriculture system where the landowner allows tenants to use land in exchange for a share of crops that the tenant produces
What is Sharecropping?